Have a Good Time at the Rose Festival

It's already Rose Festival time here in Portland. Truthfully, I don't really partake in the Rose Festival as much as most people, but I like that it exists. I have always loved the local festivals they have in towns all over the U.S.

I do, of course, like to collect Vintage Rose Festival Postcards. The costumes and floats were so pretty back then. Even in black and white you can see that. Here are a few I wanted to share before Rose Festival time is over.

The back of the postcard seen above

Happy Rose Festival from the Summer Capital of America! (Really?)

parade

The Rose Festival is going on here in Portland. Not one for groups of 350,000 people, I prefer to watch the Starlight Parade and the Rose Parade on TV. But, I do like parades. Sometime I would like to go to a small town parade like the one here.

These pictures were taken July 22, 1979 during "Old Homesteaders Days" in Osborn, Montana. Each photo says this along with a short description on the back. I got these a couple years ago from a fellow Webfooter.

On the back: Marie and Frank Sinclair as Grand Marshalls

On the back: Dog holding on to mistresses back